FDA Wants Realistic Serving Sizes on Food Packaging
This is good, i hope they make the labels more readable for the average person who is not a scientist. Its is ridiculous hard to read the labels right now and most make no sense anyway.
Read here….
Calorie counts and other vital nutrition information should be posted on the front of food packages, and the serving sizes should reflect how much people actually eat, says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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The FDA wants to make the changes because official serving sizes on many packaged foods are too small, which means the calorie counts that go with them are often misleading, The New York Times reported.
U.S. Government to Forbid Unhealthy Foods in Schools
This is a great news, that the govermnet will forbid unhealthy foods in the school. Remember, some food, especially junk food is very addictive. When you start eating you want more, its cocaine. Full of salt, sugar, additives make it very unhealthy.Read the news here,
Legislation banning candy and sugary beverages from schools will soon be introduced by the Obama administration.
Any vending machines that remain in schools would have to be “filled with nutritious offerings to make the healthy choice the easy choice for our nation’s children,” according to an excerpt of a speech to be delivered Monday by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, The New York Times reported.
Medicines Tossed in Trash End Up in Water: Study
This is one more reason that when you throw away old medications to be careful were you throw them out beccasue it can end up in the water you are drinking. Read the folllowing news from AP
Unused or expired medications that are thrown in the trash can still end up in drinking water, according to a study by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
It found minute amounts of discarded drugs in water at three landfills in the state, the Associated Press reported. This landfill water, called leachate, eventually ends up in rivers. Many communities across the United States draw their drinking water from rivers.
Maine lawmakers are currently considering a bill that would force drug makers to create and pay for a program to collect unused prescription and over-the-counter drugs from consumers and dispose of them.
“People need a way to properly dispose of their drugs, and they’re not getting it right now,” Mark Hyland, director of the state Department of Environmental Quality’s Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management, told the AP.
Maine is among more than a half a dozen states considering a “take-back” bill for medications. The Maine bill has won committee support and awaits further action. If enacted, it would be the first of its kind in the United States.
The bill is opposed by the drug industry lobby group, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the AP reported.
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